The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 3, 1935, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 ’ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1935 Local or tonight, fair Thursday; cooler. The Weather thunderstorms this afternoon PRICE FIVE CENTS Dunn County Damaged by New Storm ‘Texan Confesses Murder of Harvey CLAIMS HE KILLED |{_Heatth tester “1/7 Ow Collection Cost [iain ax “Unrus] STATE CROP NEAR Is Sales Levy Boon : NORTH DAKOTAN AS "LATTER DREW GUN Story, However, Does Not Cor- respond to That Told by Eyewitness of Tragedy DENIES MINNESOTA KILLING Officials of Neighboring State Accuse Gunman of Killing School Superintendent Hewitt, Minn., school superintendent. Hancock was fatally wounded when he came upon some men prowling about his garage. Sheriff 8. H. Adams of Todd coun- ROOSEVELT FORCES OFFER COMPROMISE ON UTILITIES BILL Seek to Strengthen Measure’ Passed by House Tuesday in Revised Form Washington, July 3.—(#)— While Roosevelt forces in the senate offered we to compromise on the “death sentence” for public utility N. D. City Favored Washington, July 3—(?)—Melvin H. Dalberg, federal communications commission > recommended Tuesday that a permit be granted George B. Bairey of Valley City, N. D., ‘for construction of a new 100-watt broadcasting station to operate on un- limited time. . —— FRENCH INDUSTRIALIST DIES Paris—Andre Gustave Citroen, 57, the “Henry Ford of France,” weak- ened by grief over business difficul- DR, DD We. MATTHAES Newly elected as head of the North Dakota Health Officers Association is ‘Dr, D. W. Matthael of Fessenden. CUBAN OFFICIALS HOLD AMERICANS FOR DEPORTATION 17 Would-Be Investigators Seized as Undesirables Up- on Arrival in Havana Havana, July 3—(7)—The Cuban Police bore down on the Oriente when she docked Tuesday night and surrounded the commission, named by the League of American Writers. ‘The members were held in a salon of the ship until 11 p. m., when they were removed to the dock, searched and relieved of all their papers. One Passenger Protests Among them was one passenger of the Oriente, Israel Wallach of New York, who protested that he was not @ member of the commission. Police said they had evidence to the con- For three and a half hours the Americans were not permitted to communciate with the United States, but finally an officer of the port po- | pendence. lice allowed Odets to send a cable to his father in Philadelphia. At first it was believed that the Americans would merely be refused permission to land. Conrad Komo- rowski, correspondent for the Nation, protested. Manning Johnson, one of the two Negro members, was pulled from his chair by an officer when he disre- garded an order to move into a cor- ner. Other members of the commission include Paul Crosbie, representative of the American League of ex-Service Men; Herman Reissig, pastor of King’s Highway Congregational church; Celeste Strack, National Stu- Police picked up 24 other persons, including eight women, near the pier, saying they were suspected of being a Communist reception committee. Roosevelt Denies He Is Blocking Measure Washington, July 3—()—A con- gtessional delegation for the Frazier- Lemke bill to refinance farm mort- gages with $3,000,000,000 of new cur- rency asked President Roosevelt Wed- nesday if he is actively opposing a vote and said he assured them he is taking no hand in the matter. MEXICAN GOODWILL EMISSARIES ARRIVE HERE FROM PIERR Quartet Expects to Complete Last Leg of Long Hop Early Thursday Forenoon Colonel Roberto Fierro and his three aides, Mexico’s good-will emis- saries to Minot’s Golden Jubilee cele- bration, were guests of Adjutant General Frayne Baker here Wednes-| day before leaving on the last leg of their long flight. ‘The Mexican air chief and his three eutenants, J. J. Sisto Del Rio, Ric- ardo Villoserro and Roberto Navarro, of the Mexican air service, alighted from their plane at the Bismarck Mu- nicipal airport around 5:30 g> m., Tuesday, after a late afternoon hop from Pierre, 8. D. The quartet is expected to leave Bismarck around 8:30 a. m., Thursday last leg of their flight, arriv- during the forenoon Day, the good- ‘be guests of honor on special program of Minot’s Jubilee Prepared to extend an official wel- hand to the Mexicans are Colonel Irving “Speed” Wallace of Governor Welford’s personal staff, and Mayor Jack Patterson of Minot. SPECIAL PROGRAMS TO MARK HOLIDA IN STATE CITIES Public Offices and Most Stores to Close; Accident Warn- ings Issued (By the Associated Press) North Dakota will join the rest of the nation July 4 in celebrating the 159th anniversary of American inde- ni . Special public programs have been arranged in many of the state’s com- munities, but a festive observance will mark the holiday generally. Public offices, banks and business places will be closed as North Dako- tans turn to vatriotic programs, out- Ings, rodeos, baseball and fireworks. Special warnings were issued by authorities to guard. against injuries from fireworks and other accidents over the holidays. Northwestern North Dakota's out- standing attraction will be the golden jubilee celebration at Minot, goal of the good-will trip of Col. Roberto) made Fierro, head of the Mexican aviation corps. A parade and rodeo will round out the celebration. Rodeos also are scheduled as fea- tures of the programs at Grassy Butte, New England, and Jamestown. The three cities plan parades as does Hettinger where a circus and baseball game will be added entertainment. . A doubleheader baseball game with the Jamestown nine will headline Valley City’s celebration which also includes a parade and carnival. A Parade and fireworks display are luled at Mandan. Citizens of Heimdah! will partici- pate in a community picnic. Sched- Assistant Attorney General W. J. Aus- tin at Columbus, Supreme Court Judge A. G. Burr at Napoleon follow- ing a parade and baseball game, State Representative W. J. Godwin of Man- ta- (dan at Price, and Acting Governor (Rep. N..D.), Gillette (Dem. Ia.), Hil- debrandt (Dem. 8. D.), Binderup, (Dem. Neb.), and Knute Hill (Dem. Wash.) They said the president assured them he had no part in efforts to have names of Democratic representatives withdrawn from a petition which would force a house vote on the bill. The representatives did not indicate that they thought the president fa- vored the bill but that he was leaving it up to congress and: would not in- terfere. CUYLER IS. RELEASED Chicago, July 3—(?)—Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler, veteran center fielder with the Chicago Cubs, was uncondition- ally released Wednesday. During his 14 years in the major leagues, Cuyler ties, died in a hospital after a long|batted at a 331 clip, Not a club in ‘ines,’ the National League wanted him. Welford at Grafton in the morning and Niagara in the afternoon; and Chief Justice John Burke of the state supreme court 1t Minot. Near Niagara a celebration will be held in honor of Sergeant James King, last of Custer’s Dakota Indian scouts, t Driver Is Injured As Car Hits Train Warren, Minn., July 3—(?)—Stan- ley Voracek of Fordville, who drove his automobile into a locomotive at a grade crossing, was in critical condi- tion Wednesday at a hospital here. Driving from Thief River Falls to Grand Forks, Voracek apparently became confused on directions, taking the wrong road. His car struck the rear of the locomotive, which was \ passing the intersection. iT State Tax Chief Feels Three Per Cent Will Pay for Operation of Law FIGURE BELOW THAT NOW Experience in Other States Cit- ed; Heavy Investment Already Made Confidence that North Dakota's sales tax law can be administered for not more than three per cent of the amount collected was expressed Wed- nesday by Lee Nichols, state tax com- missioner charged with operation of the statute which will be voted upon by the people July 15. Data by the American ‘Legislator’s association, Nichols said, show that a 3 per cent tax can be col- lected normally for less than 2 per cent, a two per cent tax for less than 3 per cent and a one per cent tax for 3 per cent. He sees no reason, he said, why North Dakota cannot do as well as the average or as well as Iowa, after which this state’s tax collection system was modelled. As examples of the probable cost of administering the sales tax, Nichols pointed to figures showing experience in other states. The costs of admin- istration in 13 states comparable to North Dakota were listed as follows: ;|North Carolina, Illinois and Utah, 2 per cent; Maryand, % per cent; Iowa, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Georgia, 3 per cent; Mississippi, 3.2 per cent; Arizona, South Dakota and Washing- ton, 4 per cent; Kentucky, 7 per cent. In Michigan the cost is 1.18 per cent and in California it is 1.7 per cent, but in the latter two states there are substantial differences in the form of the law. This: is true, to a lesser extent, of of the other states, ‘Nichols said, although the North Da- kote law is very similar to that in Towa. $25,000 Already Spent Most of the $25,000 allotted for set- ting up the sales tax machinery al- ready has been spent, Nichols said, several expensive accounting ma- chines having been purchased to fa- cilitate the keeping of records. Under the system worked out by Nichols his department will not only be able to tell how much was collected in sales taxes from any line of busi- ness but how much from each major town and county and how much from each line of business in any major sub-division. The system is identical with that used in Iowa, he said, except that it urth much, To date, he said, of operation has been less per cent in North Dakota. confident it will not go above t figure. unfortunate, he said, that no can be made be- cost of collecting a sales cost of collecting real believes the latter 10 and 15 per cent. Profit by Experience In dividing the state into 11 taxing trict experience dictates, he ing that strong impetus is be- ing given the sales tax fight by per- sons who advocate a system of old-age pensions, Nichols pointed to the fact that many old persons were bitterly Chained by her father, 9-year- old Stella Miko is pictured here as authorities found her, victim of startling parental brutality. The father, Jacob Miko, farmer ltving.» near Uniontown, Pa., imprisoned Stella and three more of his children in the cel- lar of their home because they were “unruly.” Miko was sen- tenced to pay $200 fine or spend 350 days in jail. DEMOCRATIC CHIEFS STRIVE 10 PREVENT CRITICAL PERIOD SAYS FARM CHIEF Agricultural College Expert Scouts Rust Damage, Says Rain Is Needed CENTRAL AREA HARD HIT Strip Running From Wells County to Canada in Bad Shape Says Walster Fargo, N. D., July 3.—(#)—North Dakota’s small grain crops, entering the critical period of their develop- ment, have already been subjected to punishing weather which has resulted in some deterioration in certain areas, particularly the north central section, H. L. Walster, director of the North Dakota extension division, said Wednesday. Dr. Walster reported that rust spores in very early stages and still far from doing any damage, have been found widely scattered through the grain fields of southeastern North Dakota and constitute a menace which might develop into a serious scourge if the weather continues hot and humid. “June, especially when it is cool and when there is sufficient moisture, fre- quently presents most excellent crop Prospects,” says Dr. Walster. “That has been especially true this year. “We went through most of June with ideal crop prospects over al- most the entire state. Critical Time At Hand “Now we come to July, and the next 30 days will practically tell the story of the year's crop results. “Within the last few days the heat has taken quite a toll in the grain fields in a section north of Fessen- den, running up to Canada. That area has been raising the crop this year on a mighty small reserve supply of moisture, in some sections only about 16 to 18 inches of subsoil damp- ness. “It is reported to me that the stools ere beginning to die off-in some parts of that area, leaving the rows well defined. That does not mean they may not get a fair crop there yet, if timely rains should come. It does mean that early prospective yields have been reduced and that there is @ possibility of considerable addi- tional damage if rains do not come. Some Rust Reported “As to the rust situation, we al- NEW HOUSE UPSETS Express Grave Fears of Out- come as TVA Measure Is Urged to Decision Washington, July 3.—(?)—Demo- cratic leaders strove Tuesday to pre- vent further “revolt” in the house against the president and some of his advisers. Privately, some New Deal chiefs expressed grave fears about what will happen next week when the house reaches the Tennessee Valley Authority amendments. They were concerned lest the chamber repeat the defeat it gave the president Tues- day when it overwhelmingly rejected his “death sentence” holding companies. The administration has been seek- ing to broaden TVA’s powers through amendments. Opponents have waged @ fight on the measure. Observers also believed some legis- lators would insist upon the with- drawal of Charles West, a former congressman and now liaison man .|between the president and capitol These averaged only about $8 per pen- | hill. sioner for the last six-month period. If North Dakota had no pension system—or a pretense of one—the fed- eral government could make its con- tribution anyway for a two-year pe- riod, he pointed out. However, the fact that North Dakota does have such a system, makes it necessary for the state to meet the government's requirements before federal funds will be available for old-age pensions in this state. B. G. M’Elroy, Former Steele Editor, Dies Clinton, Ia., July 3—(#)—B. G. Mc- Elroy, 57, prominent North Dakota newspaperman, died at his home here Tuesday night. He had been ill for several years, McElroy began 33 years of North Dakota newspaper work after working on and Milwaukee news- Papers. He operated the Steele Ozone 15 years until he went to Rochester, Minn., and Iowa City, Ia., for medi- cal attention on February 1, 1934. Born in Milwaukee, August 25, 1876, McElroy worked on newspapers there and in Chicago and moved from Michigan to North Dakota in 1902, working on newspapers at Bismarck, Linton, Braddock and Napoleon. He purchased the Dawson Press in 1915 which he sold four years later to the Nonpartisan League. He then moved to Steele and operated the Steele Ozone until 1934. Funeral services will be conducted from the Steele Presbyterian church at 2 p.m. Friday. Surviving are his widow, one son, D. H. McElroy, for- merly of Steele: two daughters, Mrs. H. F. Crandall, Adrian, and Mrs. M. G. alieppard of St. Paul. The house, many members said, has been in a resentful mood for weeks. They said a number of things contributed to this, among them: (1) Repeated concessions by the administration to the senate after similar concessions had been refused the house; (2) A feeling by house members that they were not getting the pat- ronage while senators were; (3) The president’s apparent will- ingness to deal and talk with mem- bers other than the regularly-elected Democratic leaders. (4) Recent activity of men and “brain trusters.” Brocopp Will Head Highway Patrolmen North Dakota’s new highway patrol personnel, taking office immediately, with Herman Brocopp, of Bismarck as acting chief, was announced Wed- nesday by Governer Welford. Brocopp, who is assistant: adjutant general under Frayne Baker, will have charge of whipping the highway pa- trol into shape. The members will probably be trained by the Minne- sota highway patrol at St. Paul next week and will appear on the high- ways of North Dakota in about two weeks. Other members of the new patrol setup named are Charles Sill of Beach, A. Swenson of Walcott, Emil Lund- quist, Parshall, and Frank Putnam, Carrington. MARKETS WILL CLOSE New York, July 3.—(?)—All leading security and commodity markets in the United States will be closed on “liaison” Thursday in observance of Independ- tence Day. ready have found scattered rust in- festations over wide areas of south- eastern North Dakota. “There is also the very serious men- ace of bad rust infestations in win- ter wheat areas just to the south of us. The tiny rust spores may be car- ried long distances with surprising rapidity, and almost invariably when the winter wheat sections of Nebras- ka, northern Kansas and southern South Dakota have a serious outbreak of rust it spreads to spring wheat territory. There is a bad rust out- break there now. “These high continuous winds from the south are almost certain to be laden with additional rust spores. Resistant Varieties Planted “Our crops are late, the growth has been rank and lush, making an ideal seed bed for rust to develop, given the right conditions of heat and mois- for utilities | ture. Bootlegge “On the other hand we have this year, probably more rust resistant wheat planted than ever before and while this may suffer—and seriously —from rust, it is very apt to come through with much better results than if the whole state were planted to Marquis or other non-resistant vari- eties.” T. E. Stoa, agronimist at the North Dakota agricultural college, believes about 60 per cent of the hard spring wheat of the state is of the rust-re- sistant Ceres variety. Practically all of the wheat in the northeastern sec- tion is Durum, also highly rust re- sistant. Former Manager of Farm Paper Is Dead Fargo, N. D., July 3.—(#)—Funeral services were conducted at Madison, Wis., Monday for Rev. Roy V. Files, according to word received in Fargo, where he was the manager of the Co-operators Herald, newspaper for the Farmers’ Society of Equity, in the early 1920's. Rev. Mr. Files died Friday at his 3 adison home where he hac resided for the last few years. He also edited a paper at Milnor, N. D. He was ordained in the North Dakota Presbytery after retiring from publication work. Work Leaders Hold Session in Chicago Chicago, July 3.—(?}—Works ad- ministrators of the Chicago region of states Tuesday conferred over techi- calities of the big relief program. Among those attending were Victor Christgau of Minnesota, Thomas H. Moodie of North Dakota, and M. A. Kennedy of South Dakota. LIKE MANNA FROM HEAVEN Marion, Ky., July 3.—(#)—Fish and potatoes out of your own garden, has been one result of Kentucky's unus- ually heavy rains. A recent torrent overflowed a stream and George Clark found plenty of fish stranded between the potato rows aftegithe water went down, o | Marrying Justice | . fa JSUDGESWALLPAMAMURRAY One of the oldest active officials in North Dakota, William Murray, judge of Ward county court, is known. as a marrying judge, having united thousands of couples during his 34 years in public office. He came to Minot in 1887 when the city was founded. Late News | Bulletins (By The Ameciated Press) MINOT MAN NOMINATED Denver.—L. A. White, Minot, N. D., was nominated as that state's director for the National Education associa- tion, in session here. BANKING: BILL TO PASS Washington.—Democratic lead- ers predicted the Glass-Eccles compromise ‘banking bill will pass without change, ruling out commodity dollar’ and: central bank amendnsents. TWIN CITIES SCORCHED St. Paul.—The Twin Cities recorded the highest temperatures of the summer. It was 88 here at noon, 92 in Minneapolis. REPORT 12% DROWNED Associated Press dispatches es- timated 124 dead in two sea dis- asters; 104 in a collision of Jap- anese steamers in the Inland Sea and 20 when five Russian fishing boats in the White Sea were capsized. CONFESSES. CHILD MURDER New York.—Police arrested @ man who gave the. name of. Raymond Johnson. Later he admitted he is Raymond Henshaw,. wanted in De- troit for the trunk murder of an 11- year-old girl. They said he confessed the crime. MISSES KINGFISH Washington—Burr Tracy An- sell, whose father is suing Sena- tor Huey Long for $600,000 for defamation of character, took a swing at the Kingfish. He missed. The affair happened Tuesday night, became public Wednesday. SOVIET ACCUSES JAPAN Tokyo—Russia sent a note to Japan accusing Nippon of trying to start trouble over islands in the Amur river. They are of strategic impor- tance and contain alluvial gold. JUST A DISAGREEMENT St. Paul—M. J. Culligan, sus- pended police chief, resigned. He said he disagreed with Safety Commissioner H. E. Warren, who charged him with crookedness, on matters of policy. REPORT BORDER CLASH Addis Ababa—Reports here said Ethiopian and Italian forces clashed on the frontier of Eritrea with heavy casualties. No details were available. FRED DeGUIRE DIES Minneapolis—Fred W. DeGuire, 49, executive assistant to President Charles Donnelly of the Northern Pacific raiload, died here after an illness of only a day. He was & former newspaperman, well known throughout the northwest, CAUSE AND EFFECT Mt. Clemens, Mich. — Harold Schroeder, 17, insisted that his broth- er Meryl, 11, fire a rifle at him to test the boy's aim at a distance of 250 feet. The funeral will be held Fri- INDICT ATTORNEY GENERAL Sioux City, Ia.—Attorney Gen- eral Edward L, O'Connor and Walter Maley, his first assistant, were indicted by a Woodbury county grand jury on charges of conspiracy to operate gambling dens in Woodbury county “and elsewhere in Iowa.” Tribune Will Not Be Published Thursday There will be ne issue of The Tribune Thursday, publication be- ing suspended to permit employes to join with the state and nation in the celebration of Independence Dey. Regular publication will be resumed Friday. i or KIUDEBR, WERNER AND DUNN CENTER HIT BY HIGH WIND Residents of House Escape In: jury When Small Structure Is Blown Against It OUTBUILDINGS DESTROYED Hail Which Followed Twistey Believed to Have Caused Small Harm to Crops In the wake of tornadic storms which caused death, injury and de- struction in northwestern North Da- kota late Monday, a windstorm fol- lowed by hail swept through Dunn county early Wednesday, damaging homes, destroying barns and small buildings and harming grain fields. Report Heavy Snow At Red Lodge, Mont. To complete a picture of unusual weather conditions, the Northern Pacific railroad advised Wednes- day that a snow storm had fallen at Red Lodge, Mont., and that snow there was so deep the high- ways would not be cleared for 10 days or two weeks, So far as could be learned no one was injured, the Associated Press re- Ported. The storm was the second this week in North Dakota, the tornado Monday ripping through McKenzie and Moun- trail counties, taking @ toll of four lives, seven injured and doing thou- sands of dollars in property damage, leaving many homeless, Fair and Cooler Is Forecast for ‘4th’ jednesday afternoon or night, with generally fair and cooler weather to prevail Thursday. Roberts does not ex- pect Fourth of July base- ball games, picnics and celebra- tions to be bothered by the weather. The change in weather prom- ised will bring relief to residents of North Dakota from high tem- Peratures and excessive humidity —and in the western section from storms and high winds. Temperature reached 100 de- grees in Bismarck —s new high for the year. Following the Dunn county storm Wednesday morning; @ 40-mile-an-hour gale swept through the Bismarck area, prevailing for 15 minutes, bending large trees near to the breaking point, whipping up clouds of dust and scattering garbage cans and other light objects about. No important damage was re- ported in the city, however, ac- The storm in Duun county struck at Killdeer, Dunn Center and Werner at 4:30 a.m. (MST). At Dunn Center an ice house was picked up and hurled against the home of Rev. C. M. Fos- mark, damaging the residence. The residents escaped injury, however. Barns were blown down and out- buildings carried away. At Werner & barn owned by Charles Brown was destroyed. Hail Damage Is Light Hail followed the winsdtorm, but damage, according to a preliminary checkup, was not believed extensive. Rain also fell in the area. Dunn Center reported .93 inch,’ Dickinson .13, and Beach .25. From Dunn ounty the disturbance headed almost due east, causing dam- age in other parts of the central sec- tion of the state and passing into Minnesota about noon. The estimat- ed velocity of the wind was 40 miles ‘an hour, A strip about 45 miles wide was af- fected, Bismarck being on its south- ern border and Turtle Lake on its northern edge. Some crop damage was reported from Stanton, in Mercer county, while at Tuttle, Kidder county, some trees were uprooted and windows in the Northern Pacific railroad station were blown in, moving in necessities, pro: viding shelter for the homeless,